926
525
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-source-control-scalable/
3 years ago
788
400
I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
https://roberdam.com/en/wisper.html
777
435
Digital books wear out faster than physical books
http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/
776
88
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
https://floor796.com/
570
103
Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
https://posts.decontextualize.com/pocket-sp/
567
464
Emergency SOS via satellite
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/emergency-sos-via-satellite-available-today-on-iphone-14-lineup/
555
142
My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator
https://github.com/s-macke/FSHistory
475
407
What Happened at Alameda Research
https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175
451
370
Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners
https://twitter.com/wikiland/status/1592477366739415040
422
97
Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-do-we-call-it-boilerplate-code/
409
358
Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
https://galactica.org/
385
124
All companies are fucked up
https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/all-companies-are-fucked-up/
383
251
FTX was registered with and licensed by the CFTC, which failed to regulate FTX
https://bettermarkets.org/newsroom/ftx-was-registered-with-and-licensed-by-the-cftc-which-failed-to-properly-regulate-or-supervise-it-and-its-innumerable-former-cftc-officials/
338
224
Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYqCWxdM4ww
291
226
The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
https://paullukas.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-inside-story-of-why
262
258
Vast Majority of People Who Invest in Bitcoin Inevitably Lose Money, Study Shows
https://gizmodo.com/bitcoin-crypto-bank-of-international-settlements-1849784466
232
176
FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpnvg/ftx-owes-money-to-more-than-a-million-people-court-filing-suggests
127
Activision Blizzard Is Trying to Stop a Union Vote at Its Albany Office
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgv48/activision-blizzard-is-trying-to-stop-a-union-vote-at-its-albany-office
212
75
Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations
https://www.campus-fm.com/
210
1
PlanetScale Boost
https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-boost
208
234
Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”
https://reclaimthenet.org/disney-plus-demands-users-age-and-gender/
206
87
How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster
https://planetscale.com/blog/how-planetscale-boost-serves-your-sql-queries-instantly
198
58
Crsql – Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite
https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite
197
66
Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-accidentally-find-a-piece-of-the-challenger-space-shuttle-180981121/
188
305
The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sinister-attempts-to-decolonise-mathematics/
38
Machine learning with Unix pipes
https://jott.live/markdown/ml_pipes
186
28
Four Years of Sourcehut
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-11-15-four-years/
183
131
Researchers generate hydrogen more efficiently from water
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-revolutionary-technique-hydrogen-efficiently.html
174
53
The gut microbiome helps social skills develop in the brain in fish
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-gut-microbiome-helps-social-skills-develop-in-the-brain-20221115/
172
205
Przewodów village in Poland hit by two Russian missiles, two dead
https://wiadomosci.radiozet.pl/Polska/rakiety-spadly-na-polske-sa-ofiary-smiertelne
164
89
Good Old Fashioned AI is dead, long live New-Fangled AI
https://billwadge.com/2022/11/13/gofai-is-dead-long-live-nf-ai/
156
138
Ask HN: Hourly billers, do you bill for only focused work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33610147
147
What is the Difference between px, rem and em?
https://carlmultimedia.com/px-vs-rem-vs-em/
215
Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative
https://lemmy.ml/
63
The Kalevala (Crawford Translation, 1888)
https://sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/
139
23
Canada police charge Hydro-Quebec employee with China espionage
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63631933
137
NYPD Arrests Cyclist for Uncovering Obscured License Plate, Lets Driver Go
https://jalopnik.com/nypd-arrests-cyclist-lets-driver-go-ghost-car-1849785539
130
72
Berkshire Hathaway bought a $4.1B stake in Apple chipmaker TSMC
https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/15/berkshire-hathaway-bought/
36
Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor (2017)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-inside-story-of-texas-instruments-biggest-blunder-the-tms9900-microprocessor
128
Show HN: Rethinking Tabs in Firefox
https://madprops.github.io/grasshopper/
125
111
Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33607994
122
40
AP: Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people
https://twitter.com/ap/status/1592593237902036992
116
50
BugMeNot Is Gone?
https://bugmenot.com
114
64
Ask HN: What Is a COO?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608546
146
Rimac Nevera Hits 412kph to Become World’s Fastest Production Electric Car
https://www.rimac-automobili.com/media/press-releases/record-breaking-rimac-nevera-hits-412kph-to-become-worlds-fastest-production-electric-car/
110
18
Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U557j6HE
108
45
Libgrapheme: A simple freestanding C99 library for Unicode
https://libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme/
106
20
On Bullshit (1986) [pdf]
http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf
Studies find automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-3a3816bd26418cc612d5b9b56d86f3a8
93
29
How fast is ASP.NET Core?
https://dusted.codes/how-fast-is-really-aspnet-core
91
60
Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and other data?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615785
10
Who first thought of the notion of Polynomial Time?
http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2022/11/who-first-thought-of-notion-of.html
85
12
Tutankhamun's Meteoric Iron Dagger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_dagger
84
51
Vivaldi Social, your new federated social-networking home
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/
83
115
The Terayacht Project
https://www.pangeosyacht.com/projects
39
Fedora Linux 37
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-37/
81
What to do if a nuclear disaster is imminent [pdf]
http://www.ki4u.com/guide.pdf
70
98
Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers
https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-satellite-outshines-stars-sparking-fresh-concerns-astronomers
65
17
The day the dinosaurs died (2019)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died
19
What is interferometry?
https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/
React Native made me give up a project today
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33609943
24
Launch HN: Activeloop (YC S18) – Data lake for deep learning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33610834
Apple’s satellite emergency SOS feature: A review and deep-dive explainer
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/11/apple-iphone-satellite-sos-emergency-explainer.html
62
16
Show HN: Semantic Video Search
https://ramanlabs.in/static/videointel.html
61
13
Tinycpm – CP/M ON A TINY 2040
https://www.kianryan.co.uk/2022-11-14-tiny-cpm/